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Media

A Norwegian blackout of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup season-opener in Sölden, Austria has been averted after the VG TV platform of newspaper VG bought the rights.
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Governance

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has won over one of its strongest critics in its battle to centralise media rights, striking an agreement with Svenska Skidförbundet (SFF), the Swedish …
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Finance & Law

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has insisted its plan to introduce media rights centralisation is still on track, despite a potentially damaging legal defeat in Germany.
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Media

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) will on Monday issue an invitation to tender (ITT) for global media rights to the Alpine and Nordic World Ski Championships in 2027 and 2029, SportBusiness understands.
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The ITT to be launched on Monday for global media rights to the 2027 and 2029 editions of the Alpine and Nordic World Ski Championships represents a strategic departure from previous processes aimed squarely at agencies and the EBU.
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Finance & Law

The Austrian Ski Federation claims to be facing seven-figure damages as it readies legal action over the process by which media rights centralisation was voted through by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council.
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Governance

Leading ski federation claim to be making progress in talks with the International Ski and Snowboard Federation over media rights centralisation but are still 'far away' from an agreement.
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Media

The FIS World Cup renewal between the EBU and the Romanian Ski and Biathlon Federation comes against the backdrop of ongoing resistance from national associations to centralised rights sales plans for the sport.
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The backlash to the rights centralisation approval by the FIS council, which the federation claims will “pave the way” for an exclusive deal with Infront, has galvanised leading ski nations to pursue their own rights sales concept that would squeeze agency margins.
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Finance & Law

A controversial vote on Friday by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council to push through media rights centralisation has reignited a dispute with Europe’s leading ski associations w…
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Media

The International Ski Federation (FIS) is live-streaming several World Cup events across its own platforms this winter sports season as part of its new centralised media rights agreement with the Infront…
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Finance & Law

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and Infront have hammered out the details of a centralised media rights ‘framework agreement’ that brings to an end a long-running feud over the own…
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As the battle over the centralisation of skiing rights rumbles on, Infront’s on-sale of Swiss-Ski rights has sprung no surprises, with the agency discreetly agreeing deals with existing FIS World Cup broadcasters.
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Media

The Norwegian Media Authority, Medietilsynet, has issued a warning to commercial broadcaster TV2 after it breached advertising rules during coverage of a round of the FIS Cross-Country World Cup in December
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Media

Freeride World Tour, the annual tour of events featuring top freeskiers and snowboard freeriders, has renewed a rights deal with action sports broadcaster Fuel TV
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Fan Engagement

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has added to its team at its new in-house commercial division with the appointment of Fifa’s Benjamin Stoll as director of digital and innovation.
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Media

Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 is facing investigation from the Norwegian Media Authority, Medietilsynet, after it appeared to break advertising rules during coverage of a recent round of the FIS…
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Media

Warner Bros. Discovery has expanded its skiing coverage in a deal with the Infront agency for rights in 45 European markets to FIS World Cup events held in Switzerland